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RE: Extra Credit Questions - Anita - 11-20-2015 06:29 PM
(11-20-2015 04:33 PM)Jim Page Wrote: Anita, rumor had it that the delicious H&H pumpkin pie actually used hubbard squash instead of pumpkins.
Whatever they used, it worked.
--Jim
I've not heard that Jim. The NYC public library had an automat exhibit and gave out copies of the pumpkin pie recipe. Here it is. I might attempt it for Thanksgiving.
Pumpkin pie from Horn & Hardart
2 cups cooked pumpkin (mashed)
3/4 tbsp salt
1 can (14 ½ fluid ounces) evaporated milk
2 eggs
3/4 cup sugar
1 tbsp butter, melted
1 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp ginger
1/4 tsp nutmeg
Heat oven to 425 F.
Beat all ingredients together with a rotary beater or wire whisk. Pour into a pastry-lined 9-inch pan.
Bake 40 to 45 minutes. Insert a silver knife into the filling about one inch from the side of the pan. If the knife comes out clean, the filling is done. Serves 4
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Jim Page - 11-20-2015 06:55 PM
Thanks, Anita, for posting that recipe! I'll pass it on to my wife and daughter and eagerly await testing their results.
I am nothing if not crafty.
--Jim
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Anita - 11-20-2015 06:59 PM
(11-20-2015 06:55 PM)Jim Page Wrote: Thanks, Anita, for posting that recipe! I'll pass it on to my wife and daughter and eagerly await testing their results.
I am nothing if not crafty.
--Jim
In that case you can bake mine but you can't eat it! Overnight delivery will do just fine.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Jim Page - 11-20-2015 09:14 PM
I do think that Patty (my lovely wife) will attempt the recipe this week. I will give a full report on this effort and will only say to Anita, concerning overnight delivery of her pie, that my intentions were good.
Speaking of Chuck Connors, as we have recently, and delivering pies, in 1955 Mr. Connors guest-starred in a whimsical "Adventures of Superman" episode called Flight to the North, where he played a muscular hick from Skunk Hollow named Sylvester J. Superman. Sylvester answers a newspaper ad requesting (the real) Superman to deliver a fresh pie to Alaska. It's a cornball sort of humor but fun.
--Jim
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 11-21-2015 08:33 AM
(11-20-2015 09:14 PM)Jim Page Wrote: Speaking of Chuck Connors, as we have recently, and delivering pies, in 1955 Mr. Connors guest-starred in a whimsical "Adventures of Superman" episode called Flight to the North, where he played a muscular hick from Skunk Hollow named Sylvester J. Superman. Sylvester answers a newspaper ad requesting (the real) Superman to deliver a fresh pie to Alaska. It's a cornball sort of humor but fun.
Jim, here is a very short clip from that episode.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Jim Page - 11-21-2015 02:21 PM
Roger, thanks for posting that great clip! The music in the "Adventures of Superman" show was so compelling. It's like the old Our Gang shorts in that respect.
--Jim
RE: Extra Credit Questions - L Verge - 11-22-2015 01:26 AM
What is the link between Thanksgiving and the poem "Mary Had a Little Lamb?"
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 11-22-2015 05:04 AM
The composer, Sarah Josepha Hale, wrote Lincoln after trying to promote this a holiday for 40 years. He accomplished.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Gene C - 11-22-2015 07:53 AM
(11-22-2015 01:26 AM)L Verge Wrote: What is the link between Thanksgiving and the poem "Mary Had a Little Lamb?"
Mary originally had a pet turkey?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 11-22-2015 08:37 AM
(My childhood memories tell me Ms. Hale wasn't actually the composer:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RrJnzBFzEEY )
RE: Extra Credit Questions - L Verge - 11-22-2015 11:16 AM
There is some thought that someone else wrote the first part. Here's what Wiki has to say about the origins:
The nursery rhyme was first published by the Boston publishing firm Marsh, Capen & Lyon, as an original poem by Sarah Josepha Hale on May 24, 1830, and was inspired by an actual incident.[1]
As a young girl, Mary Sawyer (later Mary Tyler) kept a pet lamb that she took to school one day at the suggestion of her brother. A commotion naturally ensued. Mary recalled: "Visiting school that morning was a young man by the name of John Roulstone, a nephew of the Reverend Lemuel Capen, who was then settled in Sterling. It was the custom then for students to prepare for college with ministers, and for this purpose Roulstone was studying with his uncle. The young man was very much pleased with the incident of the lamb; and the next day he rode across the fields on horseback to the little old schoolhouse and handed me a slip of paper which had written upon it the three original stanzas of the poem..."[2]
There are two competing theories on the origin of this poem. One holds that Roulstone wrote the first four lines and that the final twelve lines, less childlike than the first, were composed by Sarah Josepha Hale; the other is that Hale was responsible for the entire poem.[3]
Mary Sawyer's house, located in Sterling, Massachusetts, was destroyed by arson on August 12, 2007.[4] A statue representing Mary's Little Lamb stands in the town center. The Redstone School, which was built in 1798, was purchased by Henry Ford and relocated to a churchyard on the property of Longfellow's Wayside Inn in Sudbury, Massachusetts.
The rhyme is also famous for being the first thing recorded by Thomas Edison on his newly invented phonograph in 1877.[5] It was the first instance of recorded verse.[5] In 1927, Edison reenacted the recording, which still survives.[6] The earliest recording (1878) was retrieved by 3-D imaging equipment in 2012.[7]
For Jim Page: I even saw reference to the poem being a favorite for Blues musicians. And then, as Eva pointed out above, there's the theory that Don Music of Sesame Street is the real composer...
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 11-22-2015 03:12 PM
(11-22-2015 11:16 AM)L Verge Wrote: And then, as Eva pointed out above, there's the theory that Don Music of Sesame Street is the real composer...Precisely I thought of Don Schnulze:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r3hIfxuT9mo
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Jim Page - 11-22-2015 06:24 PM
(11-22-2015 11:16 AM)L Verge Wrote: For Jim Page: I even saw reference to the poem being a favorite for Blues musicians.
Laurie, one day I'll bring a Telecaster down to the Tavern, and you can bring a keyboard (unless there's a piano already there), and we'll rock the roof off that joint!
Can you imagine?!?!??!
--Jim
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 12-24-2015 09:14 AM
Early in 1865 John Surratt included the following paragraph in a letter to his cousin:
"I have just taken a peep in the parlor. Would you like to know what I saw there ? Well, Ma was sitting on the sofa, nodding first to one chair, then to another, next the piano. Anna sitting in corner, dreaming, I expect, of J. W. Booth. Well, who is J. W. Booth? She can answer the question. Miss Fitzpatrick playing with her favorite cat — a good sign of an old maid — the detested old creatures. Miss Dean fixing her hair, which is filled with rats and mice."
The name of Nora Fitzpatrick's cat is simply not in the literature anywhere. But one of our forum members conducted a contest to name Nora's cat. What was the winning name?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Anita - 12-24-2015 10:05 PM
The winning name for Nora's cat was Rochester. The contest was conducted by forum member Susan Higginbotham.